[Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

[Chad G. Hansen]

Ian,

The main goal behind the folksonomic aided searching, from what I understand
(I was not on the team that developed this searching algorithm, I have been
added as someone who can potentially help them get their algorithm into an
existing ILS), is to improve relevance of the results.

I will talk to my team about this further to determine what improvements we
are actually hoping for.

Thanks,
Chad

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Walls, Ian <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu> wrote:

>  Chad,
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> Neat!  Always glad to have people volunteer to help make Koha better.
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> When you say “improve” and “enhance” the search, what are your specific
> goals?  Faster retrieval time?  More complex search options (nested
> Booleans, more search fields, regex-style wildcards, etc.)?  More relevant
> relevance ranking?  All of the above?  Knowing more about the intended
> result will help us determine how difficult the process might be.
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> Thanks for your willingness to contribute; look forward to hearing more
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> Ian Walls
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> *From:* koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org [mailto:
> koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org] *On Behalf Of *Chad G. Hansen
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:18 PM
> *To:* koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> *Subject:* [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search
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> I am part of a team of researchers in the Brigham Young University Computer
> Science department who are interested in improving the searching used by
> Koha's OPAC interface.
> Others on the team have come up with a fast and effective way to do
> searching using folksonomies and we are interested in adding that system to
> one of the open-source library systems out there. We are considering both
> Koha and Evergreen for this.
> We would like to have the Koha communities involvement as much as possible.
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> We would like to either enhance the existing search algorithm of Koha or
> replace it with our own search.
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> We would like to know if anyone is interested in being involved with this?
> We would also like to get any pointers on how possible and how difficult
> this might be for our team to do this, keeping in mind that we are newish to
> the library specific protocols and formats (MARC, Z39.50, etc).
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> Thanks for your consideration.
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> Thank you,
> Chad Hansen
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> e. cgh at byu.edu
> p. 801-477-0295
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Thank you,
Chad

e. chansen4 at gmail.com
e. cgh at byu.edu
p. 801-477-0295
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